Congressman Advocates Communism as Cure for what Ails America

Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 23 May 2014 | John Semmens

[John Semmens]

Earlier this week, Representative Joe Garcia (D-FLA) said that “poverty and crime in this country could be cured if we had a communist economic system. Under communism everybody has a good government job. No one has to go without the basic necessities. No one has any need to commit crimes.”

Contrary to Garcia’s thesis, though, Washington, DC, which has a very high ratio of government jobs, also has one of the highest crime rates in the nation. As for government employees having no need to commit crimes, well, over 300,000 current and former federal workers owe more than $3 billion in unpaid income taxes.

According to Garcia, “these facts are unfair. Not everyone living in DC has a good-paying government job. Many of those who don’t have to steal from or sell illegal drugs to those who do in order to make a living. If we made everyone a government employee we could do away with this problem.”

As for the unpaid taxes, Garcia asserted that “the idea that people receiving their income from the government should have to turn back a portion of it strikes me as the height of inefficiency. It makes no sense to give out this money and then demand that part of it be paid back. It’s no wonder that some of these employees are confused about whether they should pay their taxes.”

In response to negative reactions for his embrace of communism, Garcia tried to distinguish between “the bad communism where people are arrested in the middle of the night, tortured, and shot without a trial or sent to slave labor camps and the good communism I am advocating where the government takes care of everybody.”

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[himno hero]

Garcia needs to review a little recent history.
The communists took East Germany as war reparations, well before anything was settled. Russia, to the dismay of the world, just took it. East Germany had the production , brains , and economy of Germany. Russian communists took it, milked it until it fell over. It used to be a gem, a prize until communism drove it into the ground.

Basically, it’s what Obama and his ilk are trying to do to America.

[PapaNew]

We shouldn't be surprised. The modern-day atheistic Fabian Progressive Socialist movement spawned with the likes of England's George Bernard Shaw in the late 1800's and considered themselves the "intellectual elite." It began an era of world-wide godlessness unprecedented probably since Noah.

These are people who sympathized and probably energized the 20th century totalitarian states including the communist regimes and Hitler's Germany. They believe that entire swaths of people should be destroyed and THEY are the ones to determine life or death of another.

This is the darkness we are dealing with in these last days. Time to put on Christ as children of light that shine into this darkness.

[himno hero]

It’s great for all these asses to be worldly “textbook” wise.

East Germany is a excellent example of performance in reality. It readily demonstrates the success to be expected out of any communist adventure.

The ignorant Garcia doesn’t need to re-write history, just read it.

[TBP]

At least he’s open about it.

[minnesota_bound]

We should be able to stop anyone who declares themselves in favor of or later revealed to be a socialist or communist from holding any public office.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

He should be impeached for his Anti-Americanism.